Posted on 01/05/2023 6:31:56 AM PST by Fiji Hill
Fox News' Laura Ingraham quickly ended an interview on her show with activist and author Steve Almond after he raised a sensitive issue for the presenter.
Almond, who wrote the book Against Football: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto, said that the NFL must feel economic pressure from its fans before it will take the steps needed to improve safety for players.
Speaking to Ingraham on her Wednesday show, the pair got into a spat that resulted in the Fox News host abruptly terminating the interview.
Ingraham did this after Almond compared the pressure he felt needed to be placed on the NFL to that felt by Fox News after Ingraham was criticized for a tweet mocking a survivor of the 2018 Parkland Stoneman Douglas High school shooting.
Almond said: "I am focused on the fans, and what I essentially believe, not any government ban is going to make football safer, certainly not some mythic woke mob that you mentioned to try and scare your viewers."
Graham interrupted to say: "I'm not trying to scare my viewers, football is not about politics."
Almond replied: "I think that is your entire economic model. Your entire economic model is to scare your viewers, that is your whole gig."
Ingraham then began to speak over her guest and insisted that he wanted football to be banned.
She argued that there were probably many ways to make many sports safer, including baseball and lacrosse. "Underneath it all you seem to have the belief that football has a history based in racism, and a celebration of the fans, of violence," she said.
"What I am saying to you is, I don't know what kind of fan base you are going to, but they don't celebrate violence, they are there to enjoy the game."
Almond answered: "I agree with you Laura, I don't think the fans are there to celebrate violence.
"I think they tolerate the violence and they see when someone like Damar Hamlin is almost killed in front of them and I remember watching Darryl Stingley get paralyzed, as an 11-year-old.
"I didn't stop watching football and lots of fans don't stop watching football because they enjoy it so much because it is so thrilling.
"The reason people change their behavior is because there is an economic incentive. Couple of years ago when you taunted the survivor of the Parkland mass shooting, you apologized only because advertisers withdrew from your show."
Almond was then cut off and Ingraham continued: "Yeah, yeah, yeah, nice try little buddy. I appreciate it. This is what they always do." ,p> Following a backlash after her tweet on the Parkland mass shooting survivor, Ingraham apologized on her Twitter page, although some advertisers continued to abandon her show.
Newsweek has contacted Fox News for comment.
Fire the producer that booked that idiot and move on.
Who was the survivor?
Is fox still on tv?
At least Jerry Springer let’s his “guests” talk.
Football has some violent collisions. This was not one of them. Doubt seriously that this was a collision injury.
“Is fox still on tv?”
Orders of magnitude more than the rest.
If Fox really wants to have a ratings bonanza, they’ll hire more anchors who, like Tucker Carlson, offer viable alternatives to the Deep State mindset.
Sean, Laura, Bret, and Neil don’t fill the bill.
The Bill’s player was NOT injured by violence on the field.
That was a relatively mild tackle. Anyone who’s ever played at any level knows that.
He had a heart attack/issue on field AFTER he jumped up from the tackle. That’s on tape.
I can’t speak to a solution, but in light of the facts that the NFL is both a woke - doesn’t require elaboration - and sinister organization (the latter represented by their obstinate quashing of evidence of CTE), they definitely should be feeling the economic pain.
It is telling that they are NOT.
I believe you are correct
I would assume it was HOGG
Football’s gay.
👍👍👍
The left wants to destroy football because it represents masculinity. It’s so obvious.
Safer? Meh. I think they have pretty much ruined the game already. I was drawn to football by the physical aspects of the game. A game with mostly passing and near flag football contact rules is not appealing to me whatsoever.
I rarely watch anymore as it is.
And one more thing...that was not an exceptional hit at all. Very mundane. Something else was going on there!
He used the opportunity to take cheap left wing shots at Fox rather than argue his thesis. Many years ago Rush predicted that the left won’t be happy until football is transformed in to touch football. Despite the NFL’s cave to the left politics, the left won’t be satisfied until football is dead.
Hogg should be taunted and he was not on campus when the massacre occurred so was not a survivor.
I saw this coming on, (waiting for Gutfeld), and changed the channel. No interest in what this guy had to say. However, he did make a tertiary point, the media model, not just Fox, is to scare viewers.
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